[ED: Hardcover], [PU: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL], Short description/annotationPreviously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this volume throws light on the place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers.Back cover copyPreviously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this volume throws light on the place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers.Today, friendship and politics are most commonly viewed as distinct and mutually opposed concerns. Politics tends to be seen as general and impersonal, to do with power and hierarchy. Friendship, by contrast, is conceived as particular and intimate, relating to equality and fraternity.Ancient Greek and Roman thought tended to bring the two together, locating friendship as the moral foundation of the political. But is this view sound? Ought not Friendship to be dismissed by moderns as primitive, inefficient, nepotistic (Freud)? Or ought it to be promoted as a vital moral constraint on power and the consuming egotism of rulers (Plutarch and others)?The contributors seek to answer these questions, directly and indirectly, by supplying: analyses of the conceptcritical reconstructions of some crucial modern accounts (Kierkegaard, Arendt and Schmitt)concrete accounts of the actual play of friendship both within and between states. Table of contents:AcknowledgementsPreface: P. King amp G. SmithSECTION I:nbsp ANALYSING FRIENDSHIPCh. 1: P. King. FRIENDSHIP IN POLITICS (University of East Anglia)Ch. 2: E. van der Zweerde. FRIENDSHIP AND THE POLITICAL (Radboud University, Nijmegen)Ch. 3: D. Schwartz: EQUALITY AND FRIENDSHIP (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)SECTION II: FRIENDSHIP amp THINKERSCh. 4:nbsp G.M. Smith. KIERKEGAARD ON FRIENDSHIP (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)Ch. 5:nbsp S. Nedimovic. ARENDT ON FRIENDSHIP (European University Institute)Ch. 6:nbsp G. Slomp. SCHMITT ON FRIENDSHIP amp ENMITY (St. Andrews, United Kingdom)SECTION III: FRIENDSHIP WITHIN NATIONSCh. 7: Ninanbsp Witoszek: FRIENDSHIP AND REVOLUTIONCh. 8: Sibyl Schwarzenbach: CIVIC FRIENDSHIP (City University of New York, USA)SECTION IV. FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN NATIONSCh. 9: Andrea Oelsner: FRIENDSHIP amp THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)Ch. 10: Antoine Vion: INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP (Les Universités à Aix en Provence)224 p. - 234 x 156 mmVersandfertig in über 4 Wochen, [SC: 0.00]

Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy , this volume throws light on the place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers. Today, friendship and politics are most commonly viewed as distinct and mutually opposed concerns. Politics tends to be seen as general and impersonal, to do with power and hierarchy. Friendship, by contrast, is conceived as particular and intimate, relating to equality and fraternity. Ancient Greek and Roman thought tended to bring the two together, locating friendship as the moral foundation of the political. But is this view sound? Ought not Friendship to be dismissed by moderns as primitive, inefficient, nepotistic (Freud)? Or ought it to be promoted as a vital moral constraint on power and the consuming egotism of rulers (Plutarch and others)? The contributors seek to answer these questions, directly and indirectly, by supplying: analyses of the concept critical reconstructions of some crucial modern accounts (Kierkegaard, Arendt and Schmitt) concrete accounts of the actual play of friendship both within and between states. Political Science Political Science eBook, Taylor and Francis

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